Anton Kuerti, piano

Pianist Anton Kuerti was born in Austria, grew up in the U.S., and has lived in Canada for the last 35 years. His teachers included Arthur Loesser, Mieczyslaw Horszowski and Rudolf Serkin. At the age of 11 he performed the Grieg Concerto with Arthur Fiedler, and, while still a student, he won the famous Leventritt Award.

Anton Kuerti has toured 39 countries, including Japan, Russia, and most European countries, and has performed with most major U.S. orchestras and conductors, such as the New York Philharmonic, National Symphony (Menuhin), Cleveland Orchestra (Szell), Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy), and the orchestras of Atlanta, Denver, Detroit, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and San Francisco. His vast repertoire includes some 50 concertos, including one he composed himself.

In Canada Kuerti has appeared in 140 communities from coast to coast, and has played with every professional orchestra, including 39 concerts with the Toronto Symphony. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada, and is the recipient of several honourary doctorates.

Recent engagements included a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in their new hall, and appearances with the orchestras of Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Charlotte N.C. and Calgary among others, and concerts in France and Malaysia, where he performed 6 concerts at a Beethoven Festival, including all the concerti.

Kuerti was for many years a professor at the University of Toronto, but now devotes himself entirely to performing, composing and giving master classes. As a chamber musician, he has performed the major repertoire with such artists as Gidon Kremer, Yo-Yo Ma, Janos Starker, and the Cleveland, Guarneri, and Tokyo String Quartets.

Anton Kuerti is one of today's most recorded artists, having put on disc all the Beethoven Concertos and Sonatas, the Schubert Sonatas, the Brahms Concertos and works by many other composers. His recordings are heard almost daily on the CBC. Kuerti's newest releases include a world premiere recording of two works for violin and piano by Carl Czerny, a composer whose revival he has been actively promoting - he directed a 7 concert Festival of Czerny's music in Edmonton Alberta in 2002 - and one of the Schumann Piano Concerto, which Gramophone magazine called "mesmerizing", saying it was "a deeply memorable contribution to this concerto's recorded history".

A critic for the U.S. magazine Fanfare wrote simply that 'Kuerti is the best pianist currently playing'. CD Review (London) called him 'one of the truly great pianists of this century...stunningly played...poignantly beautiful...a superb Schubert player', while the Montreal La Presse wrote "Kuerti possesses this music - the "Third" [Beethoven] and all the other concertos - as though he had written it, even to the point of visually suggesting the composer."


Anton Kuerti, piano Pianist Anton Kuerti was born in Austria, grew up in the U.S., and has lived in Canada for the last 35 years. His teachers included Arthur Loesser, Mieczyslaw Horszowski and Rudolf Serkin. At the age of 11 he performed the Grieg Concerto with Arthur Fiedler, and, while still a student, he won the famous Leventritt Award. Anton Kuerti has toured 39 countries, including Japan, Russia, and most European countries, and has performed with most major U.S. orchestras and conductors, such as the New York Philharmonic, National Symphony (Menuhin), Cleveland Orchestra (Szell), Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy), and the orchestras of Atlanta, Denver, Detroit, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and San Francisco. His vast repertoire includes some 50 concertos, including one he composed himself. In Canada Kuerti has appeared in 140 communities from coast to coast, and has played with every professional orchestra, including 39 concerts with the Toronto Symphony. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada, and is the recipient of several honourary doctorates. Recent engagements included a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in their new hall, and appearances with the orchestras of Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Charlotte N.C. and Calgary among others, and concerts in France and Malaysia, where he performed 6 concerts at a Beethoven Festival, including all the concerti. Kuerti was for many years a professor at the University of Toronto, but now devotes himself entirely to performing, composing and giving master classes. As a chamber musician, he has performed the major repertoire with such artists as Gidon Kremer, Yo-Yo Ma, Janos Starker, and the Cleveland, Guarneri, and Tokyo String Quartets. Anton Kuerti is one of today's most recorded artists, having put on disc all the Beethoven Concertos and Sonatas, the Schubert Sonatas, the Brahms Concertos and works by many other composers. His recordings are heard almost daily on the CBC. Kuerti's newest releases include a world premiere recording of two works for violin and piano by Carl Czerny, a composer whose revival he has been actively promoting - he directed a 7 concert Festival of Czerny's music in Edmonton Alberta in 2002 - and one of the Schumann Piano Concerto, which Gramophone magazine called "mesmerizing", saying it was "a deeply memorable contribution to this concerto's recorded history". A critic for the U.S. magazine Fanfare wrote simply that 'Kuerti is the best pianist currently playing'. CD Review (London) called him 'one of the truly great pianists of this century...stunningly played...poignantly beautiful...a superb Schubert player', while the Montreal La Presse wrote "Kuerti possesses this music - the "Third" [Beethoven] and all the other concertos - as though he had written it, even to the point of visually suggesting the composer."	September 12 & 13, 2003 8:00pm Barat Campus of DePaul University 700 East Westleigh Road Lake Forest Pre-Concert Lecture at 7:00pm For tickets, call 847.295.2135